“As President Donald Trump moves aggressively to advance a legal agenda with racial dimensions, he is simultaneously setting records for the percentage of white people nominated for lifetime appointments to the federal courts. Of the nearly 60 individuals Trump has nominated to preside over the US justice system, only one is black. Only one is Hispanic. Trump’s record, according to a CNN comparative analysis of data from the Federal Judicial Center and the US Senate, reflects a lack of racial and ethnic diversity unseen for decades.”

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Source: Joan Biskupic, Aaron Kessler and Ryan Struyk. “Trump judicial picks lack decades-long diversity drive.” CNN. December 2, 2017. http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/30/politics/trump-judges-courts-race/index.html

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